Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology
A $cientologist graces Art Bell with a clarifying telephone call into his Midnight In The Desert Show. 11/20/15
AB; (Answers line)... Dave, make a point. (Silence) Dave?
Dave; Hi Dave, oh Art. Yes, I was... You caught me unexpected.
AB; Well, when you get through, you hear the audio on Skype, it means you're coming up so better get ready.
Dave; Very good. Ahhh, Um you've had all sorts of people on your show, but maybe you haven't had one of me.
AB; Ok um, I will consider that, why should I have you, you mean as a guest, like a...
Dave; Yeah, or even just as someone you're talking. I'm a $cientologist!
AB; Really? Ummm, isn't there new antibiotic for that?
Dave; Say again?
AB; Nothing.
AB; Go ahead.
Dave; Uhhh, we have it all. The past lives, the body out of body experience, all that stuff which is all covered on your shows. Not so much UFO's but I have some comments on them, if you want.
I'm willing to talk a little bit of shop on all this stuff. So, as they say; "Wanna take a ride?"
AB; Sighing. Weeelll, not a $cientologists ride really, but I'm willing, I wouldn't bar you from talking about it.
Dave; Sure, ummm, specifically, well Uhhh there's an awful lot of stuff that you've talked about that is stuff that WE cover. As far as that goes.
Like uh, like the hypnotist that you talked about that, that you had on a couple of weeks ago that talked about past lives and so on?
AB; Yes?
Dave; The, those tricks that HE used sounds like it's straight out of Dianetics and other related books.
AB; Well who? Yeah but why would you want tricks used on you?
Dave; I-I, no, I'm saying that tricks and stuff that HE used.
Art; Ohhh, that HE used, yeah.
Dave; Yeah.
AB; So similar though to Dianetics, you said.
Dave; Yeah, yeah very similar to that, ummm, I do have a couple small critiques though. For example, you had asked him how do you know if the guy is faking it or not.
AB; Yeah?
Dave; Right?
Dave; The thing is that he said that he used his own ability, spiritual ability to verify that someone was actually looking at something versus making it up.
AB; I prefer another mode, um what you do...
Dave; Yes, exactly!
AB; What you do is you tell the person that you've got hypnotized that they can't feel anything in their leg. And then you start at them with a sewing needle... and pretty quickly you're gonna know if they're really under or not.
Dave; Well, it the, the thing is, is that, that if you grant him the credibility that yeah he could do that?
AB; Yeah?
Dave; Uh, is the thing is, is the ability to have that kind of perception is pretty rare, as far as that goes. Uhhh, and you would basically want a system that ANYone could use, as far as that goes.
Uhhh, and it's, it's so itsa, its...a... similar type of technique, but you're working with the idea of you want people to be more consciously aware be aware of it as far as that goes, instead of going into a oh, a hypnotic trance, as far as that goes.
The other the he use---
AB; You say that a lot, as far as that goes.
Dave; Well. Well, I could go into a lot of DETAIL, but I don't wanna get so technical.
AB; Ohhhh, noooo, no no no don't. Very BROAD brushes please.
Dave; Yeah.
One thing he did not use is a thing called, you'd could call it a canceler, that is a command that says, when you start off at the beginning of session, Uhhh, when I'm done with all the stuff that were talking about, any suggestions that I may have made to you accidentally during the course of our discussion are canceled!
He doesn't use that. And that is kind of a, a critique, and that's a thing that is in
Dianetics.
AB; Alright, well listen-
Dave; As a safeguard!
AB; Were way short on time, and you know, callers can only get so much time. So rather than have the entire Dianetics thing (sounding pained) unveiled in front of us tonight, uh, I think we'll move on for now...and say hello to. Call ended.
So, I hope you guys are clear on Daves important points now!